Which is definitely better than it expiring, and 24h batching is better than instantaneous feedback (unless you were going to check posts individually for information already, in which case things are already quite bad). It’s not obvious to me what encouraging daily checks here is doing for discourse as opposed to being a Skinner box.
The motivation was (among other things) several people saying to us “yo, I wish LessWrong was a bit more of a skinner box because right now it’s so throughly not a skinner box that it just doesn’t make it into my habits, and I endorse it being a stronger habit than it currently is.”
Which is definitely better than it expiring, and 24h batching is better than instantaneous feedback (unless you were going to check posts individually for information already, in which case things are already quite bad). It’s not obvious to me what encouraging daily checks here is doing for discourse as opposed to being a Skinner box.
The motivation was (among other things) several people saying to us “yo, I wish LessWrong was a bit more of a skinner box because right now it’s so throughly not a skinner box that it just doesn’t make it into my habits, and I endorse it being a stronger habit than it currently is.”
See this comment and thread.